The ACCT_GROUP_NAME variable is set to $PN by Gentoo policy. Prior to
this commit, it was also marked "readonly", preventing it from being
changed in an ebuild. In an overlay, and combined with the package
naming restrictions in the PMS, this has the unfortunate side effect of
prohibiting some otherwise-valid group names. We drop the "readonly" to
allow those groups to be managed (in overlays) using GLEP81 packages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org>
---
eclass/acct-group.eclass | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/eclass/acct-group.eclass b/eclass/acct-group.eclass
index a0ad86066309..6dd6dc06a07e 100644
--- a/eclass/acct-group.eclass
+++ b/eclass/acct-group.eclass
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2019-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2019-2024 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# @ECLASS: acct-group.eclass
@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ inherit user-info
# << Eclass variables >>
# @ECLASS_VARIABLE: ACCT_GROUP_NAME
-# @INTERNAL
# @DESCRIPTION:
# The name of the group. This is forced to ${PN} and the policy
-# prohibits it from being changed.
+# prohibits it from being changed. The variable is left writable for
+# use in overlays; package naming restrictions would prohibit some
+# otherwise-valid group names.
ACCT_GROUP_NAME=${PN}
-readonly ACCT_GROUP_NAME
# @ECLASS_VARIABLE: ACCT_GROUP_ID
# @REQUIRED
--
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